Shakespeare Martineau LLP’s Birmingham-based family offering is well-rehearsed in the negotiation of complex, high-value, acrimonious, and often multijurisdictional financial remedies and other instructions related to the finances and children of married and cohabiting couples. The group is led by ‘genuine force’ Aasha Choudhary, and includes Monica Ghai, who handles child and financial remedy matters with culturally complex elements, and ’skillful technician’ Robert Norris, who comes highly recommended for high-risk child law issues, high-net-worth divorce, and wealth protection agreements. Deanna Phillips-Mills is another key team member.
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‘Aasha Choudhary is excellent. A true professional who will fight tooth and nail for her clients, but is also approachable, calm, and measured in all exchanges. I also find the whole team excellent to deal with.’
'Aasha Choudhary is a brilliant communicator and extremely hard working. She is lovely to work with. Monica Ghai leaves no stone unturned in pursuit of the right outcome for her clients.’
‘Rob Norris is a skillful technician with a fantastic eye for detail. Monica Ghai is an up and coming star with great skills in both financial remedy and children act work.’
'Working with Rob Norris is always a pleasure - he is thoroughly on top of everything in a case and my recent experience involved volumes of financial information which he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of.'
‘I think this is a truly excellent practice. It has some real stars in it and they work very well together as a team with a variety of different strengths and approaches. They are strong on both financial and children work.’
‘Aasha Choudhary, Rob Norris, Deanna Phillips-Mills and Monica Ghai are all excellent. Rob Norris is exceptional on the detail. Deanna is strong on strategy and looking for longer term resolutions which will work. Aasha is particularly good with high net worth individuals and has commercial acumen.’
‘We have mostly worked with Aasha Choudhary. Aasha is simply one of the best lawyers I know in Birmingham. She is calm, friendly, efficient, and inspires confidence in her clients. She will seek a collaborative solution over litigation and has her clients best interests at heart.’
‘Aasha Choudhary is a genuine force within the Birmingham legal market place.’
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
Aasha Choudhary
Other key lawyers
Monica Ghai; Robert Norris; Deanna Phillips-Mills